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THE HOWARD HUGHES CORPORATION ONE Summerlin building Art Commission
DOWNTOWN SUMMERLIN PARTNERS WITH PHOTOGRAPHER NICOLE LANDAU FOR CUSTOM ART INSTALLATION AT ONE SUMMERLIN The Howard Hughes Corporation® is pleased to provide powerful photography throughout their signature office building
Las Vegas, NV (March 8, 2017) The Howard Hughes Corporation® (NYSE: HHC) announces its partnership with Los Angeles-based artist Nicole Landau to create custom contemporary art for ONE Summerlin, the 200,000-square-foot, Class-A office building at Downtown Summerlin® in the master-planned community of Summerlin®. The nine-piece, nine-floor custom commission created by Landau is a significant harbinger of The Howard Hughes Corporation’s renewed foray into the world of contemporary fine art. Monumental in size, each of the abstract, contemporary photographs measure 7’ by 13’ and will be located in the lobbies of every floor of the building, greeting guests as they step off the elevator. Every custom piece boasts a distinct identity of its own yet completes a cohesive vision that is second to none. This new commission at ONE Summerlin represents a rewarding collaboration between The Howard Hughes Corporation, photographer Nicole Landau and fine art consultant Wendy Posner of Posner Fine Art who served as project director. “After looking at over a hundred different artists’ work, I chose Landau because of her vision, versatility and ability to create evocative, site-specific art,” stated Posner. // continued on page 20
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Modern Blue, Lobby Dye-Sublimation on fabric with LED backlighting
Path of the Hummingbird, 2nd Floor Chromogenic Print on Metallic Photo Paper
New Red, 3rd Floor Chromogenic Print on Metallic Photo Paper
Sierra Bonita, 4th Floor Chromogenic Print on Metallic Photo Paper
Bronze, 5th Floor Chromogenic Print on Metallic Photo Paper
The Blue Pearl, 6th Floor Chromogenic Print on Metallic Photo Paper
Into the Woods, 7th Floor Chromogenic Print on Metallic Photo Paper
Temples of Time 5, 8th Floor Chromogenic Print on Metallic Photo Paper
Buenos Aires Sunset, 9th Floor Chromogenic Print on Metallic Photo Paper
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Landau’s signature imagery begins with her photos of aged architectural elements that she then modifies and manipulates, repeating and deconstructing, blending one upon another until translucent forms emerge, imparting depth and light. In revealing inherent patterns, she transforms common views into previously unimagined landscapes. Her inspiration for this custom commission comes from the history of the cities that she photographs — the full passage of years recorded silently in layers of paint and in stray marks imparted to the object. The Blue Pearl on the 6th floor has long gradations of blue tonalities that are derived from Landau’s photo of an old building with sun-bleached paint. The original photo of an oxidized metal doorknob in Bronze on the 5th floor creates an illuminated beauty in its elegant pattern. “To partner with The Howard Hughes Corporation and create these custom works of art for Downtown Summerlin is an extraordinary opportunity,” stated Landau. “Las Vegas is a remarkable city with a robust assortment of fine art both on and off the Las Vegas Strip. This is a career highlight and one I look forward to sharing with the Las Vegas community.” Most of Landau’s original pieces also work as preliminary studies for large, monumentally scaled, site-specific commissions, like the ones she and Posner compiled for ONE Summerlin. “This exhibit has challenged me professionally and allowed me to create something truly distinct of which I am very proud,” stated Landau. “Downtown Summerlin is delighted to host these beautiful, custom pieces by such a respected and talented artist as Nicole Landau,” stated Kevin
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Orrock, president-Summerlin. “This is one way we have incorporated art and culture into the community while also creating a beautiful and inspirational atmosphere throughout our signature office building.” To view the high-resolution images of Landau’s art click here or visit www.nicolelandau.com. For additional information on Posner Fine Art, visit www.posnerfineart.com. About Downtown Summerlin® Downtown Summerlin is part of a planned urban center, serving the entire Las Vegas Valley. It includes retail, entertainment, office, hotel and multi-family residential elements, all designed to create a vibrant, walkable urban core within the 22,500-acre master planned community of Summerlin. In October 2014, the expansive, 106-acre, 1.4 million-square-foot Downtown Summerlin, which represents the first phase in the future downtown, opened to the public. Downtown Summerlin features more than 125 stores and restaurants in a streetscape-shopping environment with pedestrian thoroughfares and dynamic storefronts in the center of the award-winning Summerlin master planned community. Located just east of the 215 Beltway, between Sahara Avenue and Charleston Boulevard, the development also includes a nine-story office building, One Summerlin. Additional information can be found on the website at www.downtownsummerlin. com or on Facebook and Twitter. About The Howard Hughes Corporation® The Howard Hughes Corporation owns, manages and develops commercial, residential and mixed-use real estate throughout the
U.S. Our properties include master planned communities, operating properties, development opportunities and other unique assets spanning 14 states from New York to Hawai‘i. The Howard Hughes Corporation is traded on the New York Stock Exchange as HHC with major offices in New York, Columbia, MD, Dallas, Houston, Las Vegas and Honolulu. For additional information about HHC, visit www.howardhughes.com, or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Safe Harbor Statement Statements made in this press release that are not historical facts, including statements accompanied by words such as “will,” “believe,” “expect,” “enables,” “realize”, “plan,” “intend,” “assume,” “transform” and other words of similar expression, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management’s expectations, estimates, assumptions, and projections as of the date of this release and are not guarantees of future performance. Actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied in these statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially are set forth as risk factors in The Howard Hughes Corporation’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its Quarterly and Annual Reports. The Howard Hughes Corporation cautions you not to place undue reliance on the forward-looking statements contained in this release. The Howard Hughes Corporation does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements to reflect future events, information or circumstances that arise after the date of this release. ###
DOWNTOWN SUMMERLIN & THE HOWARD HUGHES CORPORATION MEDIA CONTACTS McKinzie Cogswell, FFW PR McKinzie@ffwpr.com 702.234.5307 Halee Harczynski, marketing director The Howard Hughes Corporation (Downtown Summerlin) halee.harczynshi@howardhughes.com 702.832.1050 NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL MEDIA CONTACT Myra Peterson-Love Larym Design myra@LARYMdesign.com 702-706-2928
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NICOLE LANDAU // ARTIST STATEMENT
In the midst of all our miseries, art lets us see the world as beautiful, thrilling and mysterious. — David Hockney I always start with photographs of aged architectural elements. The original photographs may be used whole, repeated or deconstructed, blended one upon another, forms ultimately emerging through translucency, imparting depth and light. Its inherent patterns revealed, a common object is transformed into previously unimagined landscapes. My Portals series began with a dream I had in which I drew a circle in the sky with my finger and the stars aligned around it. I kept doing it over and over in disbelief as the stars continued to jump into place. Although this was only a dream, I believe it says something about our primal connection with the circles we see all around us: our sun, the full moon, the constellations arcing overhead, cycles of birth, life, regeneration…the certainty of completion when a circle has closed. This is why I continually explore the circular form in the Portals series. These ”portals” seem doorways to realms of resonance both ancient and new, unexplored and intimately familiar. Nicole Landau’s artwork has been commissioned both nationally and internationally for private collections, corporate headquarters, luxury hotels and residences such as: ONE Summerlin, The Howard Hughes Corporation, Summerlin, NV East Swire Miami Hotel, Miami, Florida Raffles Hotel, Istanbul Prince Hills, Shanghai The Park, Taiwan, interior design by HBA and KNA Design The Jon Cryer Collection, Los Angeles Residence LeAnn Rimes Residence, interior design by Jonathan Pierce Merrill Lynch, Beverly Hills, CA Scott Credit Union, St. Louis, MO Oaktree Capital, Beverly Hills, CA Hotel Palomar, Westwood, CA WWW.NICOLELANDAU.COM @NICOLELANDAUART
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My newest series, Temples of Time, plays with the visual harmony inherent in the Tripartite Schema found throughout history in art, religion, and classical architecture. In the most basic way, each piece in the series has three vertical sections and three horizontal, with a third axis of depth implied through layering, creating a coherent nested relationship between parts and the whole. The Three: Body, Soul and Spirit, expressed through sacred geometry. I see this series at once as a ray of light breaking over high mountains and as a perspectival view deep into the mountain range. The art presents as grey, but upon closer inspection it is clearly, if subtly, infused with color. The Temples of Time works provide a place of peace and reflection – a Temple, a primordial echo through the mountains of creation, a place where the threads of life collide and interweave. For all this, the Temples of Time derive their imagery from photographs I take of gates that line back alleys or auto body shops. I thus realize an unlikely transformation by turning what goes unnoticed, discarded, or considered unsightly into a transcendent space.
ABOUT WENDY POSNER FINE ART //
WENDY POSNER, owner of Posner Fine Art (PFA), is a contemporary fine art consultant based in Los Angeles, California. A fullservice art company that handles everything from acquisitions, commissions, collection curating, display and installation, PFA serves both private collectors and corporate clients around the world. EARLY DAYS Posner was born and raised near Milwaukee, Wisconsin, surrounded by modern and traditional art, ethnic artifacts and vintage collectibles. Her mother Judith had started the Posner Art Gallery there in 1960. Upon graduating from Boston University, Posner moved to Los Angeles to work for PFA where it had set up offices. In 2014, she bought and acquired the firm as principle CONNECTOR AND COLLABORATOR In helming PFA, Posner’s priority has been to grow it into an international art consultancy while still maintaining its thriving décor accessories arm. As such, she has become the ultimate go-to resource for clients, architects, interior designers and institutions. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:
Curating extensive blue chip fine art collection for Nuveen Investments, Los Angeles, CA Manufacturing (in Thailand, Vietnam, China and India) and installing 30-foot bead wall commission for the reception area for Canter, Fitzgerald, New York, NY Sourcing, designing and installing 30’ high x 17’ 8” vintage photo blow up exterior mural commission for Tribeca West Complex, West Los Angeles, CA.
Wendy Posner has strong relationships with both art stars and undiscovered new talent, journeying to over 20 countries where she regularly attends art fairs, makes studio visits and treks to remote locales on behalf of her clients.
Contact // Wendy Posner Posner Fine Art www.posnerfineart.com @posnerfineart info@posnerfineart 323.933.3664
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